Complex life cycles in a pond food web: Effects of life stage structure and parasites on network properties, trophic positions and the fit of a probabilistic niche model

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 953-965

  Preston, Daniel L ^a   Jacobs, Abigail Z ^b   Orlofske, Sarah A ^c   Johnson, Pieter T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Food web model; Host parasite interaction; Topology; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FOOD WEB; LIFE CYCLE; NICHE; ONTOGENY; PARASITE; POND; PREDATION; PROBABILITY; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PARASITE; POND; PREDATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARASITES; PONDS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84897590482     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2806-5     Document Type: Article

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